There really are bad guys out there ... and bad actor states ... and real threats ...... [View All]

.... but then ....... there always has been.

Our country will never be truly safe and will never be without external threats.

We really do have a need to maintain some vigilance. Our intelligence services are vital to our internal security. The DoD needs to remain robust and, ideally, the top military in the world.

I don't doubt any of that ...... and I suspect most of you would agree with that.

So that begs the question: How much is enough?

In terms of quantity, I think what we had in the Clinton years was about right. In terms of quality, we need more than we had then. Much more.

Right now, we seem hellbent to stay the biggest security/military spenders on the planet. I think that level of spending is, by several orders of magnitude, too much.

Anyway, we could go on, but this thread is to ask the one essential question, as stated above:

How much is enough?